12 Travel-Themed Gifts for Art Lovers

Make the blow of returning home easier for the adventurer on your holiday gift list. These gifts of artwork might help your favorite wanderer embrace their own four walls.

Lower 48 String Art

String art, where colorful pins are connected by pieces of string to create designs, is big in the crafting community right now. This piece, shaped like the United States is sure to make the artsy/crafty traveler swoon (raises hand). It's a beautiful combination of stained wood, gold nails, and mint green string.

Airport Runway Screenprints

Land the perfect gift with a screen-printed poster from Chicago-based creative studio NOMO. From AMS to ZRH, any nomad will find their favorite destination in this series of sleek, modern translations of the world’s most famous runways: for example, MAD represents Madrid-Barajas.

Hand-Crafted Globes

What started out as an experimental 80th birthday gift became Bellerby and Co, a company that makes individualized custom globes. Nothing celebrates a life well-traveled like a globe, especially one with favorite places marked on it.

Customizable Neon Sign

Create an homage to a favorite destination with a custom neon sign from Michele Varian. Choose any combination of numbers, letters, and symbols, but keep in mind that you'll also need to order a transformer so your gorgeous new gift doesn't blow any fuses.

City Neighborhood Posters

Typography meets topography in these maps, which identify neighborhood names in cities throughout the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Even if your hometown isn't represented, there are gorgeous maps of the heart and the brain.

See the World Beautiful

While traveling the world as a fashion photographer, Anne Menke saw the connection between local "native dress" and the stylized versions of those clothes on the runway. Her book See the World Beautiful is a collection of images of people and places that have inspired the world’s top designers.

Embroidered Destination Pillows

If you're always dreaming of your next getaway, why not make that more literal with an embroidered pillow from Cat Studios? The brand's new Hand-Guided Machine Embroidered collection features representations of places from Texas to Paris, all handmade on antique sewing machines.

Stately Wall Hanging

This California wood wall hanging by Hemlock + Heather is handcrafted from 100% reclaimed materials, and each one of the brand's designs comes with a personalized note telling you more about the origin of the wood used in your piece.

The World is Your Oyster: Illustrated Art Print

City Quilts

This quilt is cozy, but if you look more closely you'll notice the hand-stitched street map of one of your favorite cities. The manufacturer, Haptic Lab, will even add special details, like the location of an unexpected travel proposal or childhood home, at no additional charge.

All the Guitars in Tennessee

Australian-born artist James Gulliver Hancock was inspired to create this series of drawings after traveling around the U.S. Each piece focuses on an iconic element of the city: All the Lobsters in Maine, All the Cowboy Boots in Texas, and all the Taxis in New York won’t keep a roadtripper from wanting to collect the entire series.